{"id":57330,"date":"2023-08-07T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/07\/rahul-gandhi-returns-to-parliament-after-indian-court-suspends-defamation-conviction"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:47:56","slug":"rahul-gandhi-returns-to-parliament-after-indian-court-suspends-defamation-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57330","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi returns to parliament after Indian court suspends defamation conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The supreme court last week suspended the Congress leader\u2019s conviction, allowing him to contest a general election due next year<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s parliament reinstated opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi as a member after the country\u2019s supreme court suspended his conviction for defamation, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather were prime ministers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019\">was convicted in March<\/a> in a case brought by a lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) over comments in 2019 deemed insulting to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and others with the same name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/07\/rahul-gandhi-returns-to-parliament-after-indian-court-suspends-defamation-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supreme court last week suspended the Congress leader\u2019s conviction, allowing him to contest a general election due next yearIndia\u2019s parliament reinstated opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi as a member after the country\u2019s supreme court su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,1712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57330\/revisions\/57331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}